Bart Michiels

Bart Michiels was born in Belgium, grew up on the coastal flatlands of Flanders and studied photography at St. Lukas Hoger Instituut voor Beeldende Kunsten (now called Hogeschool Sint-Lukas) in Brussels. Michiels currently resides and works in New York City. He won The Project Competition (Santa Fe) in 1995 for his series Riverworks, and was a finalist for both the 2006 Santa Fe Prize for Photography and for Le Prix HSBC Pour la Photographie (France) in 2010 for his series The Course of History. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of Bank of America, The Tennessee Valley Authority, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and The Milwaukee Museum of Art, among others.